how to roast a whole chicken?

adelight

Yes. Plop it in a reasonably deep metal tray and stick it in a pre-heated oven for how ever long it takes.

Katyroo62

Yep cut the string and take it off then just pop it in. you can put butter on it and things but if you are squeemish just bung it in.
if you put it in a hot oven for the first ten minutes then turn it down and follow the instructions on the packet you are more likely to get cripsy skin.

Good luck

bigheadxx

Cook it breast side down for even cooking and succulent breast.

hot.chick

cut the string off and bung it in

as said b4 you can fiddle with it - but if squeamish - no need

LilySue

Okay, so, string off, breast side down, hot oven first of all......off to do that now.

Thank you all, if this works okay, I'll come back to you on getting a bit more complicated next time

seraphina

I'm a lifelong vegetarian but I have graduated to cooking meat and a roast was the first thing I started with. It really is as easy as take meat, put in oven for calculated time. There are all kinds of tips and tricks you can graduate to but basically it's stick meat in oven. With a decent pair of tongs you don't even have to touch it

Gigervamp

It's a bit late now, but sometimes organic and free range chickens have the giblets inside the cavity, so it's wise to check as they're usually in a plastic bag.

Penelope_Penguin

LilySue wrote: »

Okay, so, string off, breast side down, hot oven first of all......off to do that now.

Thank you all, if this works okay, I'll come back to you on getting a bit more complicated next time

Well done :T If you feel like being more adventurous next time, there are more ideas in this thread. I'll merge this later.

Gigervamp wrote: »

It's a bit late now, but sometimes organic and free range chickens have the giblets inside the cavity, so it's wise to check as they're usually in a plastic bag.

Good point :eek:

LilySue

Update: It went well :jThank you for being supportive and non-judgemental, my sister is an excellent meaty cook, has her own shoot and is forever cooking the results of it, but would have died laughing if I had phoned her for advice.

Gigervamp ~ The thought did occur to me that there might be something lurking within, so I had a quick check, thanks for suggesting it though

Penny ~ Yes please do merge this thread when you get a chance. Is there a way I can save that thread for myself for future use?

Penelope_Penguin

LilySue wrote: »

Is there a way I can save that thread for myself for future use?

Go to "thread Tools" at the top of the thread. You'll then get the opportunity to subscribe. You'll then have the thread on your list of subscribed threads, which you can then find in your User CP to the lft of the dark green bar towards the top of the page)

You'll also be sent an e-mail every time there's another post on the thread.

You can do this for this thread, and once it's merged your subscription and e-mail alerts will be transferred to the new thread :T